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© Greg Nash Civil liberties groups on Monday asked the Supreme Court to consider whether Americans have a right to access decisions handed down by the secretive foreign intelligence court that has played a central role amid the government’s expanded mass surveillance efforts over the past two decades. The groups, which include the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), argued in their brief that the once-narrow role of the court associated with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) ballooned following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and that its portfolio now has “profound implications for individual rights.” “It’s crucial to the legitimacy of the foreign intelligence system, and to the democratic process, that the public have access to the court’s significant opinions,” said Theodore Olson, a former solicitor general under President George W. Bush, who is signed onto the case.

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